Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980
Section 2(1)(b) of the Bill provides that the definition includes the following offences concerning same-sex sexual activity between men under section 80 of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980 (“the 1980 Act”).
section 80(7)(a), which covered sexual activity otherwise than in private (defined as above);
section 80(7)(c), which originally covered sexual activity with a person under the age of 21 (later amended to 18);
section 80(7)(d), which covered sexual activity between men where the act was committed on board a United Kingdom merchant ship and the participants were members of the crew of a United Kingdom merchant ship;
section 80(9), which covered procuring or attempting to procure the commission of a ‘homosexual act’ between two other male persons; and
section 80(12), which covered both soliciting or importuning any male person and living off the earnings of male prostitution.